Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread Maya
Thank you for the prompt reply. Actually what I'd like to know is the following: If '.bashrc' and '.profile' are responsible for setting the individual users variables and '/etc/profile' the global variables, why is it that if I set variables only in the '/etc/profile', thus making them global, th

Re: fips

2002-05-31 Thread Kent West
Dano wrote: Hello, I have a Thinkpad R30 with Windows 98. When I run fips for install GNU/Debian have the next error: --- ... Checking boot sector ... Error: Number of sector (long) does not match partion info: 17917130 instead of 17917137 The number of sector in

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:41:37AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote: > Um, speak for yourself. Grilling is a year-round thing for some up us > Minnesotan's! Neither rain nor sleet nor snow shall keep us from our appointed > burger filpping... :-) Same here with Oregonians. Who needs a patio cover? Grab

Athlon XP Motherboard Advice Sought

2002-05-31 Thread Simon Read
Folks, I'm considering building an Athlon XP 2100+ based system. I'd like to build it with a 333 MHz Front Side Bus. I'm considering KT333 based motherboards from various manufacturers. I'm especially enamoured with the EPoX 8K3A+. Does anyone out there have any experiences they'd be will

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:54:25PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: > these BLs. I was going to say that any ISP the size of swbell.net would > have a lot of innocents, but a search of the last 4200 posts just finds > me 8-P So bitch at SW Bell to respond faster to spam complaints. Not responding fast

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:26:18PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > - its still cheaper/faster in the long run to hit the "delete" key Faster? Yes. Cheaper? There's long shots measured in light-years shorter than that. You think disk space and bandwidth are free? If you've found a place that'

Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2002-05-31 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sat 01 Jun 2002 10:16am +1000 from Joey Hess: > Graham Williams wrote: > > I've got myself stuck somehow with upgrading some packages (am current > > with "unstable"). After a recent apt-get dist-upgrade I now have: > > > > debconf: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is lock

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:54:01PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Friday 31 December 1999 04:03 pm, Frank Brodbeck wrote: > > Hello everybody. > > I'm having over here great trouble. The following is my cruel fate: > > > > Everything started a good year ago. It was ca. the start-up of my > > 'Linux-at-home

Re: X server setup

2002-05-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:15:45AM -0400, Slootbeek, Jule S wrote: > hey guys, > whenever i try to start X i get this error: > fatal Server Error: > No Screens found. Probably something is not well defined for your device or monitor, or you don't have a valid SubSection "Display". Check /var/

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 04:54:01PM -0700, ben wrote: > hi frank, first off, you need new friends. second, either your mail--dated > dec 31, 1999--mysteriously took two and a half years to get to the list or > you need to replace that little lithium battery on the motherboard. third, on Or at l

Re: "mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo

2002-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
Could it be the difference in $PATH between the 2 commands? On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 14:38, Oleg wrote: > Hi > > The only way I can get mplayer to work as well as or better than its Windows > counterpart on my hardware is by using "-vo xvidix" option that requires > superuser privileges, so I add

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: > location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for cell > phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. So on top of the computer behind the fan hump (Koolance case) isn't a good place to leave my phone charging?

Re: fips

2002-05-31 Thread ben
On Friday 31 May 2002 03:49 pm, Dano wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Thinkpad R30 with Windows 98. > When I run fips for install GNU/Debian have the next error: > > --- > ... > > Checking boot sector ... > Error: Number of sector (long) does not match partion info: > 179171

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: > > > location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for > > cell > > phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. > > So on top of the computer behind the fan hum

Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:10 am, Maya wrote: > Thank you for the prompt reply. > > Actually what I'd like to know is the following: If '.bashrc' and > '.profile' are responsible for setting the individual users variables and > '/etc/profile' the global variables, why is it that if I set variables

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the > transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant > the transformer had a problem and they would send someone to look at it. > Two years later I m

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya paul yes i hit one too many deletes too . at least wasn't too bad of a delete that i could get the email resent... etc - am not as worried about "fat pipe" .. as opposed to accidental deletes... - reporting the spam is where it gets expensive real fast... -- few apps o

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > My co-workers and I have seen (or actually "heard") a lot of this over > the past four or five years. The Gateway computers we purchased came > with Western Digital drives. Accordingly, we've pretty much developed an > attitude agains

Re: Debian take on UnitedLinux?

2002-05-31 Thread Jeff
Paul Johnson, 2002-May-31 20 > ...caught 23 roughly 14" long brook trout last Monday while everone > else was at work... you bastard :-) -- Jeff CoppockSystems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: "mplayer -vo xvidix" problems with sudo

2002-05-31 Thread Oleg
On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:04 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > Could it be the difference in $PATH between the 2 commands? What do you mean? There's only one executable 'mplayer' and only one 'sudo'. I also added /usr/bin/id to the list of commands I can run as root, and it printed "uid=0(root) gid=0(

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:54:25PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: [much snippage] | I went to dsbl.org and found that they tested | positive for multi-hop and unconfirmed for single-hop. Actually, that's not what "unconfirmed" means. "Unconfirmed" simply means that someone who isn't 'trusted' caused t

Re: Possible anti-spam reject host

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:31:28PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:54:25PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote: | What gets me is RBL bounces provide information on what happened, | give you a URL for more information *and* an email address to bitch | at. Actually, only the decent ma

Re: [release+kernel] upgrade headache

2002-05-31 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 03:19:08AM +0100, Tom Barnes-Lawrence wrote: [snip] > After about a page of the kernel bootup messages, I got: > > request_module[block-major-8]:Root fs not mounted > VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: V

Re: location of Maildir - /var/mail or ~/Maildir?

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:06:25PM -0500, Roach, Mark R. wrote: | I know this might be a religious matter, but is there a good reason for | maildirs to go in ~/Maildir? DJB thinks that is the only way. | This seems to be the only way courier will | handle things, Yeah, unfortunately. You could

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:35, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: > > > I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the > > transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant > > the transformer had a problem and t

Re: Debian ports [was: Re: Weirdness in "apt-get upgrade"]

2002-05-31 Thread Brian Nelson
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: >> Presumably, woody's release has been delayed for months due to >> problems with hppa while devs tried to find access to an hppa machine >> for testing. > > That's a rather odd presumption. Do you real debian-devel-announce? You > can f

Re: Global variables

2002-05-31 Thread dman
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 12:26:21AM -0400, Oleg wrote: | On Saturday 01 June 2002 12:10 am, Maya wrote: | > Thank you for the prompt reply. | > | > Actually what I'd like to know is the following: If '.bashrc' and | > '.profile' are responsible for setting the individual users variables and | > '/et

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